Start your day with Dorchester Nub News' breakfast briefing.

Find weather, things to do, opening times, roadworks and more.

Weather

The Met Office forecasts it will be raining with highs of 9 degrees.

Sunrise and sunset

Sunrise: 05:44

Sunset: 20:31

Things to do today

• Raising Voices: Women and the Justice System is taking place at Shire Hall 
• A Virus a Day exhibition of textile art is on display at Dorset Museum
• The Frampton Arms Ale and Cider Festival is taking place this bank holiday weekend
• Copper Street Brewery is hosting a beer fest with music and pizza
• Dorset TUC May Day celebrations take place in the Borough Gardens
• Relate is hosting a craft fair in Poundbury
• Pop-up in the Yard is taking place on London Road

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Attraction opening times

Dorset Museum: 10:00 - 16:00

Shire Hall Historic Courthouse Museum: 10:00 - 16:00

The Keep Military Museum: 10:00 - 15:30

The Teddy Bear Museum: 10:00 - 16:00

The Tutankhamun Exhibition: 10:00 - 16:00

The Dinosaur Museum: 10:00 - 16:00

The Terracotta Warriors Museum: 10:00 - 16:00

The Tolpuddle Martyrs Museum: 11:00 - 16:00

Supermarket opening times

Tesco: 10:00 - 16:00

Co-op: 10:00 - 16:00

Lidl: 10:00 - 16:00

Waitrose: 10:00 - 16:00

Roadworks

• Dorset Council's programme of surface dressing works has begun. Find out more here
• White Way in Litton Cheney will be closed until May 6 while Scottish and Southern Power Distribution caries out works

Cinema screenings

Plaza cinema: 

Downton Abbey: A New Era - 13:00, 14:00, 16:30, 17:30, 19:30, 20:00

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore - 10:30 (sensory), 13:30, 17:00

Operation Mincemeat - 12:30, 16:00 

Sonic the Hedgehog 2 - 09:45

The Bad Guys - 10:15

The Lost City - 20:30

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent - 21:00

Odeon:

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore - 14:15, 17:30

The Lost City - 20:30

Sonic the Hedgehog 2 - 11:10, 13:00, 16:00

The Bad Guys - 10:15

Downton Abbey: A New Era - 11:00, 14:00, 17:00, 19:00, 20:00

Fun fact of the day

Sherborne was made the capital of Wessex, one of the seven Saxon kingdoms of England